In Jen’s 23 years as an educator, she has taught 1st- 4th grade. She is trained in Reading Recovery, Kagan Cooperative Learning Structures and Common Core for ELA. She is a K-12 Reading Specialist, has a Bachelor's in English and a minor in Psychology from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, and a Master's in Reading Education from East Carolina University. She taught in the San Luis Coastal Unified School District in California and at PK Yonge Developmental Research School at the University of Florida. Before she stepped into Hello Literacy full-time, she was the RTI Coordinator, Marzano Trainer and Intervention Director for her school as well as the Literacy Coach and School Improvement Chair at Lake Myra Elementary in WCPSS, the largest school district in North Carolina. Since 2012, Jen travels the country providing positive, engaging and relevant professional development to teachers in schools and districts across the country. Jen has a TpT store called Hello Literacy, where her mission is to create products that make kids think and make teachers better teachers. Jen is on Instagram at @hellojenjones and online at www.helloliteracy.com. She does a weekly video broadcast www.fb.com/helloliteracy. She currently lives in Raleigh, NC, with her husband and two daughters.​

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TEACH YOUR HEART OUT CONFERENCE

​Want to learn some new and innovative classroom strategies? Are you looking for some strategies that are on the cutting edge and research based? Does your passion for teaching need to be reignited? You will be learning from top educators all while having loads of fun! Come join us at the Teach Your Heart Out Conference.